. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras . enoa : stevedores and shippersturned their hands to weaving and hammering,dockers and porters to shoe-making and women, too, of the port set to work to spin,and sew, and embroider, and in delicate handi-crafts to supplement the labours of the was no question of unemployment underthe aegis of the Red Cross, and the blue robe ofMary, Queen of Genoa, enwrapped no idlersor undesirables. Looms were set up in every salita and vicolo,and busy fingers were thrusting hissing shuttlesthrough warps of wool, of silk, of flax, Everycortile had it
. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras . enoa : stevedores and shippersturned their hands to weaving and hammering,dockers and porters to shoe-making and women, too, of the port set to work to spin,and sew, and embroider, and in delicate handi-crafts to supplement the labours of the was no question of unemployment underthe aegis of the Red Cross, and the blue robe ofMary, Queen of Genoa, enwrapped no idlersor undesirables. Looms were set up in every salita and vicolo,and busy fingers were thrusting hissing shuttlesthrough warps of wool, of silk, of flax, Everycortile had its smithy and its armourers bench,where strident metallic music awoke the and saddlers, expressing pungent odoursfrom vats and trees, turned out gauntlets, bootsand scabbards for men, and harness for theirchargers. Sailmakers and cordwainers wereas fully employed as the shipbuilders and re-fitters. All along the sandy beach woodmenwere shaping shafts for lances and bows : theirshavings mingled with cuttings of knights 44. LA MARCHESA GERONIMA BRIGNOLE-SALE AND HER DAUGHTER MARGHER1TA. Anthony Vandyck. PALAZZO ROSSO, GENOA. Crusades and Crafts mantles of velvet and brocade. Every housewas a workshop : every church a store. Pur-veyors of comestibles, and growers of vines,with slaughterers of cattle, and merchants in oiland wax, worked night and day to furnish shipssupplies. Bullocks, mules, asses, and even dogs,were pressed into mans urgent services. Child-ren who were too young to help were leftpretty much to themselves in the gutters, butthose whose fingers and feet were of any usewere apprenticed before they reached theirteens. All Genoa hummed; work and pay—pay and work, was the tune ; and the result,phenomenal prosperity. It is perhaps unnecessary here to trace thehistory of the twenty-one trade corporations,or guilds, which shared the various industriesof the city ; but it is interesting to note that the Arti of Florence and the Fragili of Veniceenrolled res
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